The Age of Stupid

Spanner Films

(Film/DVD, Online)

DVD cover for "Age of Stupid"

Made by a young British director and producer, Franny Armstrong, on a small budget, it stars Oscar nominated Peter Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the Arctic in 2055.

He is looking back at the years 2008/9 and the warnings the world was getting about the beginnings of climate change. In his world of 2055 the Arctic is permanently ice free and the world's population of people, animals and plants has been virtually wiped out. Why? Because during the Age of Stupid, the years between 1988 and 2015, during which humanity had become aware of the likely consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and still had time to avert catastrophe, it had largely chosen to ignore the warnings.